Epitrepontes

Epitrepontes (translated as The Arbitration or The Litigants) is an Ancient Greek comedy by Menander, of which only fragments of papyrus were preserved.[1] It's one of Menander's best preserved plays, and was found in 1907, alongside Perikeiromene and Samia in the Cairo Codex.[2][3][4]

Epitrepontes
Written byMenander
CharactersCharisios, Pamphile

Additional fragments of the play have been found since its initial discovery. In 2012, the Michigan Papyrus was published, giving better readings to Acts 3 and 4 of the play.[5]

Plot

Five months after his wedding, Charisios goes on a business trip. While he was out of town, his wife Pamphile gives birth to a child, whom she reluctantly abandons in order to preserve her reputation and her marriage.

References
  1. Damen, Mark. Reading 5: Greek New Comedy.
  2. The Plays and Fragments. Oxford University Press. p. xxxi. ISBN 978-0-19-954073-0.
  3. Easterling, P. E.; Knox, Bernard M. W. (1989). The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Volume 1, Greek Literature, Part 2, Greek Drama. Cambridge University Press. p. 163. ISBN 978-0-521-35982-5.
  4. Anderson, William. "1997.10.07, Menander, Vol. 2. Pp. x + 501. Loeb Classical Library 459. – Bryn Mawr Classical Review". Bryn Mawr Classical Review.
  5. Sommerstein, Alan. "From Mount Sinai to Michigan: the rediscovery of Menander's Epitrepontes (part 4)". University of Nottingham.
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